Bootloader & File-Systems Services

Bootloaders

When a computer is first powered on, it does not have an operating system in ROM or RAM. The computer must initially execute a small program stored in ROM along with the bare minimum of data needed to access the nonvolatile devices from which the operating system programs and data are loaded into RAM. The small program that starts this sequence of loading into RAM, is known as a bootstrap loader, bootstrap or boot loader. This small boot loader program's only job is to load other data and programs which are then executed from RAM.

eInfochips has worked on multiple projects involving porting of bootloaders from available chipsets to custom boards. We offer porting, optimization and customization of various boot loaders such as UBoot, TI Proprietary Bootloaders and RedBoot

uBoot: uBoot is a universal boot loader for embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other processors

TI Proprietary Bootloader: TI provides proprietary bootloaders for TI Chipsets. eInfochips has extensive experience working on TI bootloaders, and offers reference designs for the TI DaVinciTM Series processors which includes a ported and optimized bootloader for the reference design board.

RedBoot: RedBoot is is an open source application that uses the eCos real-time operating system Hardware Abstraction Layer to provide bootstrap firmware for embedded systems

File Systems

eInfochips has working experience on most of the file systems used in embedded applications. We have customized file systems to meet application requirements and integrated them into the system. We offer customization, optimization and integration of various file systems such as FAT32, Ext3, YAFFS, JFFS2, FAT16

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